this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
183 points (93.8% liked)
Technology
59575 readers
5805 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
"Wonder Meta hasn't bought out one of those ancestry companies so they can start collecting people physical data along with their digital."
Shhhh...don't give them any ideas.
I swear if they really wanted to, they could do that and build a database on par with federal government departments.
Make it open source and searchable, and they could fuck up society.
Just pull another Cambridge Analytica with it and watch the world burn. The shady siphoning of data for years until the secret leaks would skyrocket everyone's anxiety about who had what and questioning everything around them all while conspiracies spiral out of control. If it were searchable at least you'd know, but this way the unknown would be so much worse.
Have fun with that mental image.